Summary

The chapter opens with Jeffrey, Emma, and her adopted 14-year-old son, Stak, riding in a taxi. Stak is briefly visiting his mother and spends the majority of his time at school or with his father, who found him at a Ukrainian orphanage. Suddenly, Stak begins speaking to the Middle-Eastern taxi driver in Pashto. Emma asks about the job at Silverstone’s office and asks if it will change him. He says it will not, but it will help him figure out who he is as a man. Jeffrey questions the reasons why some of his bank transactions are off by $1.12. Emma rebuffs this, but Jeffrey claims that it cannot be a coincidence. Stak proclaims that the taxi driver is a former member of the Taliban. Jeffrey believes him. Emma explains to Jeffrey that Stak seems obsessed with numbers. He memorizes temperatures and...